Lawrence McConnell, 29, of Easley is charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer.(Photo11: Anderson County Sheriff's Office)

An Upstate man and woman are accused of impersonating officers from the State Law Enforcement Division and detaining a woman they believed to be shoplifting at a Powdersville Walmart.

Lawrence McConnell, 29, of Easley and Cheyenne Burrell, 28, of Piedmont were arrested Thursday. According to arrest warrants, McConnell and Burrell were at Walmart on Anderson Road Jan. 15 when they claimed to be SLED agents and detained "a suspected female shoplifter."

According to their arrest warrants, McConnell and Burrell are licensed security guards, but do not work at, or for, Walmart.

According to McConnell's arrest warrant, he is also accused of physically assaulting the woman who was detained.

Cheyenne Burrell, 28, of Piedmont is charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer.(Photo11: Anderson County Sheriff's Office)

An incident report from the Anderson County Sheriff's Office says that when deputies arrived at Walmart just before midnight that day, store managers told them they had a 23-year-old woman inside their loss prevention office "in reference to concealing items and not rendering payment." The store managers told deputies and that two people who had identified themselves as SLED officers had gotten into a physical altercation with the woman as they were attempting to detain her.